Oscar winner Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables, Ocean’s 8, Serenity) will be starring in Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches adaptation for Warner Bros. Pictures as the Grand High Witch, Variety has confirmed.
Zemeckis will be directing the project, based on Roald Dahl’s novel.
Backed by Warner Bros, the project will be produced by Oscar-winning directors Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro.
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Based on the 1983 novel by Dahl, The Witches tells the story of a brave young boy and his Norwegian grandmother as they battle England’s witches, but this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. Real witches don’t ride around on broomsticks. They don’t even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies.
The Witches was previously adapted into a film in 1990 from director Nicolas Roeg and starring Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, and Rowan Atkinson.
The book follows a boy who stumbles upon a coven of child-hating witches he must stop, even though he has been turned into a mouse.
Zemeckis will pen the script for the new film along with his ImageMovers partner Jack Rapke. They will also co-produce the feature.
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